How young women and men with their families find themselves, from one day to the next, excluded, hunted down, arrested throughout occupied Europe simply because they are Jewish, only to be deported far from home to one and the same place.

It is the discovery of the concentration camp universe: brutal forced labor, daily violence, hunger, thirst, disease and omnipresent death. Everyone must find a way to survive.

How the deportees in the concentration camp become the rare witnesses of mass extermination.

How do you get out of Auschwitz, how do you rebuild yourself? How do you talk about this ultimate experience, and also how do you pass it on?